Pop-Up Father's Day Card feat. Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn & Taylored Expressions

Hello, crafty friends! Today, I'm sharing the card my son and I collaborated on for Father's Day. I've had all these amazing Avery Elle stamp sets for some time and was desperate to use them! I'm a huge fan of Elena Roussakis' illustrations, previously for Neat & Tangled, and now for Avery Elle. The critters are so adorable and hard to resist!

One of my favourite sets is the Forest Dance Party because all the animals are playing musical instruments. Since my son plays trumpet and percussion, we included the fox playing a bugle and the bird playing the triangle. As always, we coloured the bird in widgeon colours. ;)

The sweet beaver is from Maple Syrup and the stool, books and coffee are from Feels Like Home. We stamped all the images with Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them with a mix of (mostly) Copic markers and Sketchmarkers. All of those colours and links are in the supply list below.

We created the Platform Pop-Up from Dark Brown Woodgrain cardstock and both the hills and Platform Pop-Up Add-On from Into the Woods 6x6 Paper Pack. After securing the animals to the hills with glue dots, I stamped the sentiment from Maple Syrup on a piece of patterned paper but broke up the original sentiment on two lines.

For the custom name, we die cut the letters from Mini Caps Alpha & #s by Taylored Expressions. As previously mentioned HERE and HERE, Bucky is my husband's nickname and the term of endearment we use for his (originally Minecraft-related) beaver persona. 

This style of card could be used on any occasion or as an every day encouragement card. I hope you find inspiration in this project.

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Taylored Expressions | 2 Mini Slim Father's Day Cards

I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! This is the first Father's Day in forever that I haven't been with my dad but I'm happy that he's in Indianapolis with my sister since she hasn't celebrated a Father's Day with him in about 25 years. In honour of Father's Day and to celebrate all men who are fathers, father figures and mentors, I'm sharing these two mini slim cards using a mix of new and old products from Taylored Expressions.

I stamped the Father's Day Favorites in Blueberry ink on Sugar Cube cardstock. Then die cut them and set them aside. Next, I stamped the beer mugs from Hoppy Days Cling & Clear Combo using Oreo ink on Sugar Cube cardstock. To fill the mugs with beer, I stamped the beer first with Potato Chip ink, then added Pineapple ink and used a sponge dauber to create the perfect ombre effect.

On the first card, I used a Mini Slim Top-Fold Card in Toffee and on the second card, I used a Mini Slim Top-Fold Card in Sugar Cube. On the first card, I stamped the second sentiment from Hoppy Days and glued frames from the Mini Slim Thin Frame Cutting Plate in silver glitter, Plum Punch and Macaron.

On the second card, I cut the largest Stitched Mini Slim Stacklets from Macaron cardstock and added texture with the Diamonds Piercing Plate. I added silver glitter cardstock behind the sentiment and as a shadow beneath the beers. I pulled a heat embossed sentiment from Simple Strips - Man Myth Legend from my Simple Storage for Simple Strips and finished with silver drip drops.

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Scrap 'n Stamp | For the Boys Inspiration Hop + Giveaway!

I'm thrilled to be hopping along with Scrap 'n Stamp Canada to celebrate the men in our lives! You should've come from Thanh's Instagram feed but if you just happened upon the hop, head over to the Scrap 'n Stamp blog to begin. There's loads of inspiration across all social media platforms and you can comment for your chance to win a $50 gift certificate to the shop. There's also a weekend sale and you can save 20% on select items. 

For my interactive card, I combined the fabulous Platform Pop-Up Die from Lawn Fawn with the Love You More Than Dies from Concord & 9th for card that can be used on Father's Day or any other day to tell dad that he's special.

I started by cutting the Platform Pop-Up from white woodgrain cardstock. I also cut the Platform Pop-Up Add-On and the hill pieces from Honey Bee's Back To Basics 6x6 paper pad. 

Next, I die cut the food pieces from Love You More Than using Spellbinders assorted cardstock pack and gold dust cardstock. After assembling the pieces, I attached them to the plaid hills.

To create the sentiment panel, I cut the scalloped frame from Love You More Than Dies and the letters from Concord & 9th's All the Letters. Before glueing the die cut letters on the panel, I stamped the curved sentiment from the coordinating Love You More Than stamp set.

To create the foremost sentiment, I white heat embossed a sentiment from Concord & 9th's Lots to Say stamp set and die cut it using one of the stitched frames from the Platform Pop-Up die set. Here's a short stop-motion clip of the card coming out of its envelope.

Your next stop is Jessica McAfee.  Thanks so much for hopping along with us and be sure to check out the sale!

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VIDEO | Taylored Expressions | All Occasion Cards feat. *NEW* Ink & Cardstock

Taylored Expressions has just released seven new ink and cardstock colours and you're going to love them! They're fabulous additions to the entire colour collection and they look amazing together and mixed with existing colours.

In this video, I used the Create-in-Quads Hexagon Layering Stencil with Rose Water, Passion Fruit, Macaron and Tropical Punch inks. I enjoy having and highly recommend both the full size ink pads and ink cubes because they're great for different purposes and you can get everything in the I Want It All Ink & Cardstock Bundle. 

After creating the four quad panels and trimming them down to 4" x 5.25", I stamped out On the Block - Love with Passion Fruit ink, On the Block - Dad with Tropical Punch ink and On the Block - Cool with Rose Water ink.

For the first card, I also used the coordinating shadow dies cut from silver glitter cardstock and adhered them to the back of the block words. I used an additional sentiment from Building Blocks - Love Additions which was already in my Simple Storage for Building Blocks stash. I centred the entire sentiment on a panel of vellum cut with the Stitched Rectangle Stacklets.

For my second card, I used the Rays Pierce & Cut Plate over the stencilled panel and absolutely love the effect. I definitely need to make a habit of this! The sentiment from Oh My Word - Happy Birthday was heat embossed with silver tinsel embossing powder on Tropical Punch cardstock and layered on a vellum shadow. Then the panel was attached to a Rose Water card base.

The scripted 'birthday' was popped up on foam strips but the individual 'happy' letters were glued directly onto the panel. I placed the sentiment too low on the background so I placed more silver drip drops at the top of the panel in order to balance out the space.

This third design is my favourite of the bunch. I just love the way On the Block - Cool looks stamped with Rose Water ink. The shadow layer was cut from Passion Fruit cardstock. The secondary sentiment from Building Blocks - Cool Additions was also taken from my Simple Storage for Building Blocks stash.

I used the Happy Hex Dies, originally from the Happy Hex Monogram Card Kit, cutting them from silver glitter cardstock and glueing them on several of the stencilled hexagons. I attached the panel to a Sugar Cube card base and popped on the sentiment pieces with foam strips.

My fourth and final card features On the Block - Dad stamped with Tropical Punch ink and heat embossed with two layers of sparkle embossing powder for maximum sparkle. The secondary sentiments are from Mini Strips - You're the Best and they were heat embossed with silver tinsel embossing powder on Oreo cardstock.

Taylored Expressions offers various styles of Mini Strips Dies and these were die cut using the latest Mini Strips - Flag Die. I attached the Dad sentiment to an Oreo shadow and popped up all the pieces with foam strips. The stencilled panel was attached to a Macaron card base.

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Ellen Hutson | Interactive Cards feat. Spellbinders Happy Dance Collection

Ellen Hutson has added lots of new Spellbinders products to the shop, including the Happy Dance Collection! When I saw the adorable drinks, flowers, glue and prize ribbon, I knew I had to have them. There are also two sentiment sets, We Dance Glimmer Sentiments, which I used on both these cards, and the Happy Parents Day Glimmer.

I made two cards using the same colours of Bazzill heavyweight cardstock from the Ellen Hutson shop. These include Marshmallow Chick, Gold Coins, Juicy Pear, Easter Grass, Gumdrop, Robin's Egg, Candy Necklace, Peanut Cluster and Licorice. The specialty cardstocks are Spellbinders gold mirror cardstock and Essentials by Ellen white linen cardstock.

On this Mother's Day card, I used the I Dance die set, adding the hot foil sentiment from We Dance Glimmer Sentiments to the sleeve on the coffee cup. I also used the flowers from the same die set as accents. You can create a huge bouquet as the object for the hands to hold but I used them as accents here.

To create the background, I cut a 0.875" x 4" strip of Robin's Egg cardstock, taped it flush to a 3.25" x 4" piece of white linen cardstock and again to a piece of 1.125" x 4" strip of Gumdrop cardstock. Then I dry embossed that panel using the Head in the Clouds embossing folder.

For my Father's Day card, I had to use the beer mug because it's so awesome! Actually, the bubbles in the beer lines are covered up by the label, which is disappointing but it still looks amazing. These dies are from the Let's Dance die set and I think you can see how it might be fun to mix and match these elements with I Dance.

Again, I used the same colours as the first card, minus Gumdrop but as I look at it now, I could've used it in the beer label since there's so much white on this design. To create the background, I heat foiled the Diagonal Glimmer Stripes on Robin's Egg cardstock, the dry embossed a 4" x 5.25" white linen cardstock panel using the Sun Rays embossing folder. This folder isn't sold at Ellen Hutson but you can get a similar effect by dry embossing with the Radiant Background Stencil.

I hope you enjoyed this inspiration post using new Spellbinders products, now available at Ellen Hutson! I hope to be back soon with more inspiration for these products. Please tag me if you create with these particular sets. I'd love to see what you make.

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Concord & 9th | Flower Power Release | Feature Friday Week #1

I'm so excited to be a guest designer for Concord & 9th's Flower Power Release! I'll be sharing several cards over the next few weeks using these new products and this first week features In the Garden Turnabout and Banner Builder Too Bundle.

If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that my dad is a life-long avid gardener so I was excited to see the In the Garden Turnabout and knew it would make the perfect background for a Father's Day card. I used Ballet Slipper, Poppy, Stardust and Clover to stamp the turnabout.

It just so happened that Banner Builder Too had a sentiment for Father's Day, which I stamped in Mushroom ink. I added texture to the die cut banner using the stunning Stitched Vines Card Front Die, die cut in Clover cardstock and layered over Gold Glitter cardstock.

I added bit of foam tape in different sections of the banner layers to create realistic dimension. I trimmed down the turnabout panel and adhered it to the card base with strips of Stardust and Mushroom cardstock.

Given the fabulous sentiments, it was obvious that I also had to make a Mother's Day card for my mother-in-law using the Banner Builder Too Bundle. Here, I white heat embossed it on Dove cardstock and used a blender brush and Dove ink to add dimension to the banner. Again, I used foam tape in various sections to create dimension.

My mother-in-law's favourite colour is purple so I die cut the Magnolia Perfect Pairings from both Eggplant and Oceanside cardstock, layering them for an extra pop of colour. I added Gold Glitter flowers using the Friendship Garden Dies, embellishing them with Black Enamel Dots.

To create the background panel, I cut the Simply You Dies from white and Stardust cardstock, with the white piece inlaid in the Stardust frame. The flowers and banners were adhered using a combination of liquid glue, glue dots and foam tape.

I'll see you again next week with more inspiration featuring products from the Flower Power Release. Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Taylored Expressions | Mini Slim Father's Day Cards

I'm so excited to share the Father's Day card that I made for my dad and the Father's Day card that Damian made for his dad. I had several new products from Taylored Expressions that hadn't seen ink yet and Damian was also convinced that we had to use them. ;)

Based on the products we selected from my stash, we decided that the mini slim size was the way to go. I selected the Mini Slim Top-Fold Card in Sugar Cube and I used a pastel blue blender brush and Gumball ink with the Mini Slim Rectangle Masking Stencil to create a soft frame. Then I used a dark blue blender brush and Blueberry ink with the Mini Slim Candy Cane Stripes Stencil to create strips on opposite corners of the card base.

Next, I ombre stamped On the Block - Love and On the Block - Dad using Gumball ink on the top half of the word and Blueberry ink on the bottom half of the word. I used a sponge dauber to soften the transition between the two colours. I gold embossed sentiments from Mini Strips - You're the Best and Building Blocks - Love Additions and die cut them using the coordinating dies. Then I set aside all the pieces to work on the images. 

As I've mentioned many times before, it's rare for me to give my dad that doesn't feature flowers since he's been an avid gardener his entire life. I decided to use the adorable row of flowers from Bitty Borders, which I stamped in Oreo ink and coloured with Copic markers. I die cut a second set of the flowers and used Bearly Art liquid glue to stack them for a bit of dimension. I assembled my finished card by using foam tape on the block words and the centre building block, a tape runner to adhere the other two mini strips, and liquid glue to attach the flowers. I just love the different levels of dimension and the visual interest provided by the stencilling in the background!

Damian watched me do the ombre stamping on my card and was super excited to try it on his card. He selected the Mini Slim Top-Fold Card in Toffee and started by stamping On the Block - Dad using Gumball and Blueberry inks to mimic what I did on my card. Using Hoppy Days was a must for my husband because he loves beer. I love beer, too, and we both love most alcoholic drinks. LOL Damian was so excited to re-create the ombre effect on these mugs of beer and had so much fun doing it. He used Potato Chip ink on the top half of the clear filler stamp and Pineapple ink on the bottom half. He used a sponge dauber to soften the transition lines and stamped each beer twice in the mini MISTI stamping tool to perfect the ombre effect.

To make this special card pop, Damian created a frame by trimming a 3.5" x 7" piece of silver glitter cardstock and cutting out the centre using the largest of the Stitched Mini Slim Stacklets. He used Bearly Art liquid glue to attach this frame to the card base.

Before assembling the rest of the card, Damian placed the secondary sentiments in the MISTI stamping tool and stamped them using Oreo ink. Then he used foam tape to pop up On the Block - Dad and the beers. Using a jewel picker, I added a few mini star sequins to provide a bit more balance to the card and also because bling is good. ;)

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